Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998

Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Albany, NY

June 14, 1998Montgomery County, Schoharie County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 1998, 4:20 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Schoharie County, New York. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 1998, 4:20 PM EDT (20:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1998, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Albany, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Montgomery County, NY, Schoharie County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 50 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1998-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1998-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
535 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KALB 142019
FFWALB
NYC035-057-095-150215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
420 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL
STREAMS AND CREEKS IN FULTON...MONTGOMERY AND SCHOHARIE COUNTIES
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 10 PM EDT.  DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES 2 TO 4 INCHES
OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THESE COUNTIES DURING THE PAST 24 HOURS.
MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THESE COUNTIES INTO
THIS EVENING RESULTING IN FLODDING OF SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS.

SPOTTERS REPORT WATER FLOWING OVER SEVERAL ROADS IN MONTGOMERY
COUNTY...INCLUDING BURTONSVILLE ROAD...ROUTE 30A AND CORBIN HILL
ROAD.

AREA RESIDENTS SHOULD MONITOR FLOOD CONDITIONS... AND BE PREPARED
TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND... SHOULD FLOOD WATERS THREATEN. IF FLASH
FLOODING IS OBSERVED... ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO
ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN
WATER BEGINS 0RISING.
$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 10:56 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYUlster9 hr
Jun 14, 4:20 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYFulton6 hr
Jun 14, 7:55 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALYGreene, Ulster11 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.